294 Ill. App. 3d 263 - Swanigan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2020
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao · 133 Ill. 2d 295 - Healy v. Vaupel · 102 Ill. 2d 278 - Cope v. Doe · 56 Ill. App. 3d 997 - Madden v. Kuehn · 147 Ill. App. 3d 710 - Robb v. Sutton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, we should not look to the reason why Cortez [the foster child] was in defendant’s home, but to the source of the duties that existed because Cortez was in defendant’s home. Defendant owed Cortez a duty of care not only by virtue of her state employment as his foster parent, but also as a homeowner with a minor in her home. See Cope v. Doe, 102 Ill. 2d 278, 286 , 464 N.E.2d 1023, 1027 (1984); Osborne v. Claydon, 266 Ill. App. 3d 434, 436 , 640 N.E.2d 684, 686 (1994). It was from the latter source of defendant’s duty of care that plaintiffs’ complaint sought recovery.” Swanigan, 294 Ill. App. 3d at 270-71 , 389 N.E.2d at 642.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.